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Studio sperimentale di giunti ibridi CFRP-alluminio
2011
The shell matrix of the freshwater mussel Unio pictorum (Paleoheterodonta, Unionoida). Involvement of acidic polysaccharides from glycoproteins in na…
2007
13 pages; International audience; Among molluscs, the shell biomineralization process is controlled by a set of extracellular macromolecular components secreted by the calcifying mantle. In spite of several studies, these components are mainly known in bivalves from only few members of pteriomorph groups. In the present case, we investigated the biochemical properties of the aragonitic shell of the freshwater bivalve Unio pictorum (Paleoheterodonta, Unionoida). Analysis of the amino acid composition reveals a high amount of glycine, aspartate and alanine in the acid-soluble extract, whereas the acid-insoluble one is rich in alanine and glycine. Monosaccharidic analysis indicates that the in…
CUDA-BLASTP: Accelerating BLASTP on CUDA-enabled graphics hardware
2011
Scanning protein sequence database is an often repeated task in computational biology and bioinformatics. However, scanning large protein databases, such as GenBank, with popular tools such as BLASTP requires long runtimes on sequential architectures. Due to the continuing rapid growth of sequence databases, there is a high demand to accelerate this task. In this paper, we demonstrate how GPUs, powered by the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), can be used as an efficient computational platform to accelerate the BLASTP algorithm. In order to exploit the GPU's capabilities for accelerating BLASTP, we have used a compressed deterministic finite state automaton for hit detection as wel…
Holocēna veģetācijas izmaiņu liecības organogēnajos nogulumos Ziemeļvidzemē
2013
„Holocēna organogēnie nogulumi un to uzkrāšanās apstākļu izmaiņas purvos Ziemeļvidzemē”. Disertācijā analizēti piecu Ziemeļvidzemes purvu nogulumu pētījumu rezultāti, kas iegūti, izmantojot lauka un laboratorijas pētījumu metodes - augu makroskopisko atlieku, sporu un putekšņu, citu mikroskopisko atlieku, kūdras sadalīšanās pakāpes un botāniskā sastāva, nogulumu karsēšanas zudumu analīzi, kā arī nosakot nogul umu absolūto vecumu ar 14 C un AMS 14 C metodēm. Pētītajos ezeru un purvu nogulumos Ziemeļvidzemē atpazītas liecības pa r būtiskām nogulumu uzkrāšanās apstākļu izmaiņām visā holocēna laikā, kas ietekmējušas nogulumu sastāvu un raksturu, tai skaitā noskaidrot a aukstā 8200 notikuma un M…
Selezione dell’habitat in quattro specie ittiche criptobentoniche nell’infralitorale superiore di coste rocciose in Mediterraneo
2010
Alusveden hapetuksen ja PHOSLOCK-käsittelyn vaikutukset Kymijärven syvännepohjaeläimistöön - vuoden 2012 tulokset.
2013
[Johdanto] Tämä toinen Kymijärven syvännepohjaeläimistöä koskeva tutkimus toteutettiin syksyllä 2012. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää järven kunnostustoimena toteutetun hapetuksen sekä kesällä 2012 suoritetun PHOSLOCK-käsittelyn vaikutuksia Kymijärven syvänteiden pohjaeläimistöön ja ekologiseen tilaan. Järven pohjoista Myllypohjan syvännettä on hapetettu kesästä 2008 alkaen hapekasta päällysvettä alusveteen pumppaavalla Mixox-hapettimella (Kukkonen 2011). Alkukesästä 2012 eteläisessä Lapinkiven syvänteessä on järven kunnostustoimena lisäksi toteutettu PHOSLOCK-käsittely, jossa bentoniittisaveen liitetyt lantaani kationit (La³⁺) sitovat pohjaan laskeutuessaan valtaosan veden reaktiiv…
Glaucomatous Maculopathy: Thickness Differences on Inner and Outer Macular Layers between Ocular Hypertension and Early Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma U…
2020
The purpose of this study was to compare the thickness of all inner and outer macular layers between ocular hypertension (OHT) and early primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) 8 × 8 posterior pole algorithm (8 × 8 PPA). Fifty-seven eyes of 57 OHT individuals and fifty-seven eyes of 57 early POAG patients were included. The thickness of macular retinal nerve fiber layer (mRNFL), ganglion cell layer (GCL), inner plexiform layer (IPL), inner nuclear layer (INL), outer plexiform and nuclear layer, photoreceptor layer (PRL) and retinal pigment epithelium were obtained in 64 cells for each macular layer and mean thickness of superior and inf…
Energy Management and Smart Grids
2013
The paper outlines energy management concepts and the smart grid evolution. The necessity of considering energy management as a crucial innovation in load supplying to permit a more powerful penetration of renewable energy usage at the building and city level and to perform energy savings and CO2 emissions reduction is pointed out. The driving factors to enhance the current power distribution are presented, and the benefits concerning smart grids are underlined. In the paper, a specific energy management analysis is reported by considering all the electric value chain, and the demand-side management and distributed on site control actions are described. To verify the benefit of energy manag…
Toward Self-Aware Robots
2018
Despite major progress in Robotics and AI, robots are still basically “zombies” repeatedly achieving actions and tasks without understanding what they are doing. Deep-Learning AI programs classify tremendous amounts of data without grasping the meaning of their inputs or outputs. We still lack a genuine theory of the underlying principles and methods that would enable robots to understand their environment, to be cognizant of what they do, to take appropriate and timely initiatives, to learn from their own experience and to show that they know that they have learned and how. The rationale of this paper is that the understanding of its environment by an agent (the agent itself and its effect…
Experiments in Artificial Theory of Mind: From Safety to Story-Telling
2018
Theory of mind is the term given by philosophers and psychologists for the ability to form a predictive model of self and others. In this paper we focus on synthetic models of theory of mind. We contend firstly that such models—especially when tested experimentally—can provide useful insights into cognition, and secondly that artificial theory of mind can provide intelligent robots with powerful new capabilities, in particular social intelligence for human-robot interaction. This paper advances the hypothesis that simulation-based internal models offer a powerful and realisable, theory-driven basis for artificial theory of mind. Proposed as a computational model of the simulation theory of …